Lillian Ross
Author
Language
English
Description
Cougar, named for his temperament when he got into a fight, travels from Wisconsin to the timber fields in Washington at the turn of the century and then to Northern Alberta with his son to carve out a new life for themselves. Odilon Gusal comes from Oklahoma also looking for land to build a life with his family Another man who will become involved with this family is Billy Jarvis who escapes an entanglement with the law in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan....
Author
Language
Español
Description
El agudo instinto de observación de la periodista estrella de The New Yorker encontró en las tripas de la industria del cine un drama fascinante de personajes, egos y conflictos. «Era como una novela desplegándose ante mí», recordaría entusiasmada Ross en sus memorias.
A las complicaciones tradicionales de un rodaje (evocadas con un desesperado sentido del humor por Álex de la Iglesia en el prólogo de este libro) se sumaron el desafío logístico...
6) Picture
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 219 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Ross worked at The New Yorker for more than half a century, and might be described not only as an outstanding practitioner of modern long-form journalism but also as one of its inventors. Picture, originally published in 1952, is her most celebrated piece of reportage, a closely observed and completely absorbing story of how studio politics and misguided commercialism turn a promising movie into an all-around disaster. The charismatic and...
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Features a collection of essays on expatriates' experiences in post-war France that were used to inspire Wed Anderson's new film, The French Dispatch, including the work of Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross.
